Business applications
Record the vendor requirements for planning, inventory and enterprise resource planning software. Include the database and scheduled jobs in your sizing brief.
Server Hosting for Manufacturing Applications
Choose infrastructure for business applications, supplier collaboration and reporting around your manufacturing operations.
Plan the applications you will host
Supplier portals
Define document exchange, order-status and access requirements. Keep supplier permissions tied to the information needed for each relationship.
Reporting and collected data
Estimate incoming records, retention and processing frequency. Size storage and compute for both ingestion and the reports users need to run.
Integration boundaries
Document the connection between hosted business applications and factory systems. Have your engineering team define which functions must continue locally if that connection is unavailable.
Choose a configuration for your workload
Compare CPU and RAM for application services and database workloads, then review storage performance, capacity and growth. Confirm software support for the physical or virtual environment you choose. A reporting server and an operational application may need different configurations and maintenance schedules.
Use the server comparison to review the two server types, or explore country and city guides for location options.
Before putting the application live
Test a representative production record
Follow a test order or inventory update through the application, database and reporting process.
Schedule maintenance around operations
Document change windows, update ownership and the steps for reverting an unsuccessful software change.
Verify recovery dependencies
Restore the application, database and integration configuration together, then check which records need reconciliation.
Operating your server
The standard dedicated and cloud plans are presented as unmanaged. Assign responsibility for the operating system, applications, updates, monitoring and backups. Review server management responsibilities and use the deployment checklist to plan the move.
Choose your server plan
Compare the current configurations and prices, then review your product, location, options and final total in the cart.